Strangers who kept hilarious Tinder exchange for 3 years to finally meet

OHIO -- Michelle Arendas and Josh Avsec have kept up an epic Tinder conversation for nearly three years—and after it recently went viral, their story scored them a free trip to Hawaii.

BuzzFeed details how it all started for the Kent State University students when they matched on the dating app in September 2014. Avsec, now 22, sent Arendas, now 21, a message, but at the time she was often deleting and re-downloading the app, so she didn't see it right away.

When she finally responded more than two months later, she joked: "Hey sorry my phone died!" Avsec played along, waiting another couple of months after that exchange before responding, "Hey, sorry was in the shower." And so it went, with both of them waiting months (in one case, as long as 10 months) between messages with poor excuses like being in class or having had "a really busy week." On Friday, Avsec shared their message history on Twitter, asking readers to take note of the dates and commenting, "One day I'm going to meet this girl and it's going to be epic."

Hahahaha one day I'm going to meet this girl and it's going to be epic. Look at the dates of our tinder texts. pic.twitter.com/DASQK4c5cX